Overview
My research interest lies generally in the area of dietary patterns and chronic diseases including hypertension using controlled feeding study and lifestyle intervention designs.
Two major controlled feeding clinical trials that I was involved in include the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Study and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension-Sodium (DASH-Sodium) Study. In addition to being an active member for the diet committee for DASH, I also function as the chair of the diet committee for the DASH-Sodium study. I am familiar with the development and operation of a controlled feeding study, which means the process of study design, development of questionnaire/forms for data collection/monitoring, development of quality assurance procedure, and data analysis.
I've also helped with the design and implementation of the lifestyle behavioral intervention program for the Hypertension Improvement Project (HIP), PREMIER clinical trial, Weight Loss Maintenance trial (WLM), ENCORE study, and the Cell Phone Intervention for You (CITY) trial.
Key words: Diet, controlled feeding study, mineral, blood pressure, nutrition.
Two major controlled feeding clinical trials that I was involved in include the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Study and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension-Sodium (DASH-Sodium) Study. In addition to being an active member for the diet committee for DASH, I also function as the chair of the diet committee for the DASH-Sodium study. I am familiar with the development and operation of a controlled feeding study, which means the process of study design, development of questionnaire/forms for data collection/monitoring, development of quality assurance procedure, and data analysis.
I've also helped with the design and implementation of the lifestyle behavioral intervention program for the Hypertension Improvement Project (HIP), PREMIER clinical trial, Weight Loss Maintenance trial (WLM), ENCORE study, and the Cell Phone Intervention for You (CITY) trial.
Key words: Diet, controlled feeding study, mineral, blood pressure, nutrition.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor in Medicine
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2024 - Present
Medicine, Nephrology,
Medicine
Member of Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
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2013 - Present
Duke Molecular Physiology Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
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2019 - Present
Duke Cancer Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Reply to Nastasiia Artamonova and Isabel Heidegger's Letter to the Editor re: Pao-Hwa Lin, Alanna D. Burwell, Edward L. Giovannucci, et al. Dietary Patterns in Prostate Cancer Prevention and Management: A Systematic Review of Prospective Cohort Studies and Randomized Clinical Trials. Eur Urol. 2025;88:571-588.
Journal Article Eur Urol · March 2026 Full text Link to item CiteTreating Malignant Hypertension With the Low-Sodium, Low-Protein, and Low-Fat Rice Diet.
Journal Article Hypertension · January 2026 BACKGROUND: The rice diet (RD), a low-sodium (<200 mg/d), low-protein (≈20 g/d), and low-fat (<5 g/d) diet was used to treat patients with malignant hypertension beginning in the 1940s, before any effective antihypertensive drugs were available. We retrosp ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteDietary Patterns in Prostate Cancer Prevention and Management: A Systematic Review of Prospective Cohort Studies and Randomized Clinical Trials.
Journal Article Eur Urol · December 2025 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Prostate cancer (PC) is the second most common cancer and a leading cause of death among males. In this systematic review we evaluated cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the relationship between dietary patt ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Duke/UNC ADAR Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029Intermittent Fasting using a Fasting-Mimetic Diet to Improve Prostate Cancer Control and Metabolic Outcomes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cedars Sinai Medical Center · 2023 - 2028Biomarkers of Dietary Intake and Exposure Data Coordinating Center
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2027View All Grants
Education
University of Texas, Austin ·
1990
Ph.D.